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One of the most famous images of the Battle of Arnhem is of a Scottish officer in his kilt learning over a jeep about to retrieve something.

The officer was Capt.James Ogilvie, originally a “GordonHighlander” but now leading a company of the Glider Pilot Regiment into Arnhem itself.

Unlike most other officers he is not wearing a “Denison Para” smock but in battledress and carrying a Sten Gun. Capt. Ogilvie died attempting to swim across the Rhine of the night of the British withdrawal 25/26 Sept.1944.